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Benona Township is a
civil township of
Oceana County in the U.S.
state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the
township po****tion was 1,425. A sawmill...
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Walter Benona Sharp (12
December 1870 - 28
November 1912) was an
American oilman and
innovator in
drilling techniques.
Sharp was born in
Tipton County...
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Benona Sprague (15
February 1833 – 19 June 1908) was a
corporal in the
United States Army who was
awarded the
Medal of
Honor for
gallantry during the American...
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technology at that time, the
fishtail bit. (See image) In 1908, he and
Walter Benona Sharp, his
business partner,
built a two-cone
drill bit
model using wood...
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Township Shiaw****ee 3,119 3,168 −1.5% 3,017 35.48 91.9 89.3/sq mi (34.5/km2)
Benona Township Oceana 1,425 1,437 −0.8% 1,520 40.38 104.6 35.6/sq mi (13.7/km2)...
- oil
drilling rigs. He
partnered with
longtime business ****ociate
Walter Benona Sharp to
manufacture and
market the bit.
Following her husband's
death in...
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Elmwood Elwood Ferry Flower Cr****
Forest City Gale
Silver Lake
Stony Lake
Benona Township Claybanks Township Colfax Township Crystal Township Elbridge Township...
- 1909. It
consisted of two
interlocking cones.
American businessman Walter Benona Sharp worked very
closely with
Hughes in
developing the rock bit. The success...
- The
Hughes Tool
Company was
founded in 1908 by
business partners Walter Benona Sharp and
Howard R. Hughes, Sr.,
father of
Howard Hughes, Jr. That year...
- Wyspiański,
Polish playwright, poet, and
painter (b. 1869) 1912 –
Walter Benona Sharp,
American businessman (b. 1870) 1917 –
Mikelis Avlichos, Gr**** poet...
